4.  The applicant was born in 1936 and lives in the village of Mendeleyevo of the Moscow Region.  In 1986 he took part in the emergency operation at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
5.  On 23 December 1999 the Solnechnogorsk Town Court accepted the applicant's action against the Solnechnogorsk town branch of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (пенсионный отдел по городу Солнечногорску Пенсионного Фонда Российской Федерации) (hereafter – the Fund) and awarded him 217,941.58 Russian roubles (RUR, approximately 8,073 euros) in arrears of monthly pension for the period between 29 July 1996 and 31 December 1999. The court held that from 1 December 1999 the Fund should pay the applicant RUR 9,236.05 as his monthly pension and should subsequently adjust that amount to take account of increases in the minimum monthly wage.
6.  The judgment of 23 December 1999 was upheld on appeal on 24 April 2000 by the Moscow Regional Court.
7.  Enforcement proceedings were opened, but on 29 May 2001 the Moscow Regional bailiffs' service returned a writ of execution to the applicant, noting that under the new procedure effective from 22 February 2001 the applicant had to submit the writ to the local treasury.
8.  On 16 November 2001 the applicant submitted the writ of execution to the bailiffs' service. The writ was returned to the applicant and he was advised again to submit it to the local treasury.
9.  According to the Government, the Social Security Committee of the Solnechnogorsk Town Council asked the applicant to provide it with the writ of execution with the view to enforcing the judgment of 23 December 1999. The applicant responded that he did not have the writ and asked to enforce the judgment.
10.   On 20 September 2004 the Social Security Committee asked the Solnechnogorsk Town Court to issue it with a writ of execution in respect of the judgment of 23 December 1999. The writ was issued on 26 October 2004.
11.  On 23 May 2005 the applicant was paid RUR 217,941.58.
12.  The applicant alleged that the Fund had failed to enforce the judgment of 23 December 1999 in the part concerning monthly pension payments and had reduced those payments to RUR 467.54. On 27 February 2000 the applicant had complained to a court about the Fund's actions.
13.  On 28 December 2000 the Solnechnogorsk Town Court held that the Fund's actions had been unlawful and confirmed the operative part of the judgment of 23 December 1999. The judgment of 28 December 2000 became final on 22 March 2001.
14.  The Fund, however, continued to underpay the applicant.
15.  The applicant sued the Fund seeking an adjustment of the monthly pension awarded by the judgment of 23 December 1999, to take account of increases in the minimum monthly wage.
16.  On 12 March 2001 the Solnechnogorsk Town Court held that the Fund should adjust the applicant's monthly pension to take account of increases in the minimum monthly wage. No specific amount of increase was determined.
17.  The judgment of 12 March 2001 became final on 14 June 2001 when the Moscow Regional Court upheld it on appeal.
18.  According to the applicant, the Fund continued to pay him non-adjusted pension.
19.  The applicant lodged an action seeking an increase of his monthly pension and payment of arrears which the Fund had not paid him in breach of the judgment of 23 December 1999. In the meantime, in June 2002 the Fund began to pay the applicant RUR 22,035.37 in monthly pension.
20.  On 12 February 2003 the Solnechnogorsk Town Court awarded the applicant RUR 464,010.80 (EUR 13,620) in arrears of monthly pension for the period between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2002. From 1 January 2002 the Fund was to pay the applicant RUR 26,839.08 (EUR 788) as monthly pension. That amount was to be adjusted to take account of increases in the subsistence level.
21.  On 12 May 2003 the Moscow Regional Court upheld the judgment of 12 February 2003 on appeal.
22.  In August 2003 the Fund began to pay the applicant RUR 26,839.08 in monthly pension.
23.  On 30 July 2004 the applicant received RUR 464,010.80 in pension arrears under the judgment of 12 February 2003.
24.  In 2003 the applicant sued the Fund, seeking recovery of arrears in monthly pension. He claimed that the Fund had only begun to pay him monthly pension in the amount established in the judgment of 12 February 2003 in August 2003. He also claimed adjustment of the awarded sum.
25.  On 23 December 2003 the Solnechnogorsk Town Court awarded the applicant RUR 37,937.04.
26.  The judgment of 23 December 2003 was upheld on appeal on 10 February 2004 and was enforced in full on 27 May 2004.
27.  Between 2000 and 2002 the applicant sued in tort the Fund, its officials and the Solnechnogorsk town bailiffs' office.
28.  The final judgments in the proceedings were issued by the Moscow Regional Court on 16 April 2001 and 6 June 2002 and by the Solnechnogorsk Town Court on 2 October 2001.
29.  On 12 May 2003 the Moscow Regional Court, in the final instance, dismissed two suits against the Solnechnogorsk town administration and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.